Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Editor Ray Long assigned to Calvin Coolidge the writing of an autobiography, and if the manuscript which Editor Long tells us he received from the hands of Mr. Coolidge was composed by the President-hats off to Editor Long. 2) Calvin Coolidge is a native of Vermont, and migrated to Massachusetts. I was born in Massachusetts, and migrated to Vermont. But Mr. Coolidge now owns the homestead at Plymouth, he accepts the name Vermonter-so I feel that we are fellow Vermonters. 3) My occupation during more than 30 years has been editing (daily newspapers), publishing, and printing. With these...
...Coolidge-Smith rivalry in private life will soon also extend to literature. Last week it was reported that Mr. Smith will write a series of personal and political reminiscences for the Saturday Evening Post. † New York Life had the late Myron Timothy Herrick, Ambassador to France, on its board. It was to succeed Mr. Herrick that Citizen Coolidge was elected...
...Hoover right forearm ached painfully. The President could write only with difficulty. In one day he had shaken 1,757 hands at the rate of 43 per minute. From their Congressmen, citizens obtain letters entitling them to a presidential handshake. In one day last week, New York's Senator (Dr.) Copeland. who last month cautioned President Hoover to mind his health, sent 188 handshakers to the White House...
...write about a mystic without making him seem too queer is a distinguished accomplishment. Author Williamson's mystic cuts strident across a maze of conventionalities, but he is never cheap, affected, sentimentalized. His theories may well antagonize, but his understanding of animals, his intuition regarding fellow humans, are faultless, impressive...
...THEN CAME FORD-Charles Merz -Doubleday Doran ($3). Author Merz of The Great American Band Wagon does not pretend to write a biography of Henry Ford. He illustrates instead the period of American development that is best illuminated by the highlights of Ford's career. The result is a logical piece of writing, efficient in its grasp of factual detail, but devoid of any great inspiration. Perhaps the subject matter is too familiar; perhaps the perspective too short. Unheralded by newspaper publicity, the first of the highlights were the successive experiments in mechanics that culminated in the historic Lizzy...